Patents by Inventor Ken Shreve

Ken Shreve has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Facilitating cash payment for transit mobile applications
    Patent number: 9760880
    Abstract: A method for facilitating bankless cash payments includes determining that a mobile device is within a threshold distance of a particular retail system and receiving a selection of a transit product or a stored value amount to be added to the virtual account. The method may also include providing the selection to a transit system and receiving, from the transit system, a code based on the selection. The code may include an amount to be tendered for the selection to be added to the virtual account. The method may further include providing the code to the particular retail system and receiving the transit product or the stored value amount on the mobile device from the transit system. The transit product or the stored value amount may be received upon the transit system receiving an indication from the retail system that the amount was tendered for the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Cubic Corporation
    Inventors: David L. deKozan, David Blue, Ken Shreve
  • FACILITATING CASH PAYMENT FOR TRANSIT MOBILE APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20160260075
    Abstract: A method for facilitating bankless cash payments includes determining that a mobile device is within a threshold distance of a particular retail system and receiving a selection of a transit product or a stored value amount to be added to the virtual account. The method may also include providing the selection to a transit system and receiving, from the transit system, a code based on the selection. The code may include an amount to be tendered for the selection to be added to the virtual account. The method may further include providing the code to the particular retail system and receiving the transit product or the stored value amount on the mobile device from the transit system. The transit product or the stored value amount may be received upon the transit system receiving an indication from the retail system that the amount was tendered for the selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: Cubic Corporation
    Inventors: David L. deKozan, David Blue, Ken Shreve